Eric Weiner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
-
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
-
You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
-
It's actually harder to write a fun song.
-
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
-
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
-
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
-
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
-
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
-
My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
-
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
-
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
-
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
-
So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
-
The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
-
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
-
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
-
You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
-
Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact.
-
I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.
-
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.
-
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
-
I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.
-
It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
